Sodexho CEO Joins Diversity Advisory Board

Deloitte & Touche USA LLP Appoints Macedonia 


GAITHERSBURG, Md., Oct. 12  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Sodexho, Inc. (NYSE:SDX), the nation's leading provider of food and facilities management, recently announced the appointment of CEO Richard "Dick" Macedonia to the external diversity advisory board of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, based in New York.  Macedonia joins five other nationally recognized leaders to serve as a diversity advisor of Deloitte's Diversity & Inclusion Initiative, which was established in 2002 to ensure oversight for meeting the organization's business objectives for growth, profitability and greater inclusion.

"Sodexho, under the leadership of Dick Macedonia, has earned a stellar reputation as a champion for diversity," said Barry Salzberg, managing partner, Deloitte & Touche USA LLP.  "He understands the business imperative for diversity and inclusion and brings tremendous expertise to our Diversity Advisory Board."

With Macedonia's appointment, The Diversity Advisory Board, now comprised of six members, holds Deloitte's U.S. firms accountable to its Diversity & Inclusion Initiative.  Along with Macedonia, board members include:

  * Weldon Latham, Esq., Diversity Advisory Board chair; partner - Davis,
    Wright, Tremain LLP

  * Aida Alvarez, former director, U.S. Small Business Administration

  * Jewell Jackson McCabe, chair, National Coalition of 100 Black Women;
    president, Jewell Jackson McCabe Associates

  * Omar Wasow, executive director, Blackplanet.com and Harvard University
    doctoral candidate

  * Alice Young, partner and chair of the Asia Pacific Practice at Kaye
    Scholer, LLP International Law Firm



Acting as a catalyst for change, the board's advice and recommendations are used to provide greater focus of Deloitte's efforts towards achieving work place diversity, fostering a culture of inclusion and increasing brand eminence in the marketplace.

As President and CEO of Sodexho, Inc., Macedonia is responsible for overseeing the company's operating divisions, $7 billion in annual sales, more than 125,000 employees and more than 6,000 clients in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Sodexho offers innovative outsourcing solutions in food service, housekeeping, groundskeeping, plant operations and maintenance, asset management, and laundry services to corporations, health care, long term care and retirement centers, schools, college campuses, government and remote sites throughout North America. Headquartered in Gaithersburg, Md., Sodexho proudly serves as the official food service provider for the U.S. Marine Corps.

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DATASOURCE: Sodexho, Inc.



CONTACT:  Jaya K. Bohlmann of Sodexho, Inc., [phone],





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